An 81-year-old former Trumbull County Auditor and Treasurer has been sentenced after being convicted of menacing by stalking.

David Hines, who pleaded no contest to the charge earlier in Warren Municipal Court, was handed a thirty day suspended jail sentence on Thursday.

According to a police report filed in September, a 15-year-old girl was followed by a White Ford Mustang as she was leaving Rivergate School on Franklin Street in Warren.

Once the girl reached a business on Elm Road where she was going to meet her mother, the man began telling the girl to get into his car, according to the report.

The girl told police she began yelling at the man to leave her alone, and a woman in the business parking lot came to the girl's aid and yelled and both the girl and the witness were able to get pictures on the phones of the suspect. 

Police later arrested Hines in connection with the incident.

In addition to being placed on probation for five years, the judge suspended driving privileges for Hines.